woodyuk Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 HiI have started using uPNP on my router rather than hardcoding the external ports. The reason behind this is that my router often just gets choked up and need to reboot often (which gives me new external IP) and so not getting inbound floods. I thought I could use uPNP and utorrent so that each time I start utorrent it uses a different port and then opens up that port on my router. However it does NOT close ones it has opened before, so my internet had gone to a slooooow mo - I just looked and found 12 port mappings had been create and my logs said I was being flooded. A router reboot, clear up ports and internet is back to normal.Should utorent not clean up ports it is no longer using if it has opened them before ?
woodyuk Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Posted July 1, 2006 not for me! Honest :-) I am was using RC1 and updated to stable 1.6.I am using a Belkin Wireless Router (model F5D7632-4) with latest firmware. I am based in UK so will be European model.
Firon Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Could just be a bug on the Belkin. Lots of problems with Belkin routers. That, or you're not exiting µT properly...
woodyuk Posted July 1, 2006 Author Report Posted July 1, 2006 What router do you think is best ? I had a DrayTek before which was amazing but expensive however it died. :-(
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